QuickTime Player's H.263 capabilities and "white"/"blank" video

Hi All,
I recently recorded a set of 3GP files, all of which have H.263 video tracks and AMR-NB audio tracks.
- When I play these files with Quicktime Player, I see "white" (or maybe "blank" is a better term) video.
- When I extracted the video track from these 3GP files as a raw H.263 bitstream, and decoded it with TMN 3.2.0 H.263 decoder, the decoding proceeded without a problem, and when I played the YCbCr file created by the TMN 3.2.0 H.263 decoder, the video looked absolutely fine.
- When I play these 3GP files with another media player (VLC), the video looks fine.
My question is - what are the limits on H.263 content that can be handled by Quicktime player (in terms of profiles, levels, annexes of the H.263 standard)? I am extremely surprised to see that bitstreams which can decoded even by the TMN decoder, which is very old, buggy and restricted in implementation, Quicktime Player could not handle.
Any pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks.

2:20:02:01 is a big file, just how big is it?
Anyhoo.. try open in MPEG Streamclip and using the file, export to MPEG-4 and an iTunes preset, iPhone specifically, and see what happens. You can select just a minute of the clip with setting the I/O points and CMD+C to copy, CMD+N open a new player and CMD+V to paste , save that and test with it as it takes of course 1/2:20:00:01 of the amount of time.
MPEG Streamclip is free.
Also from a QT point of view what happens if you copy say 1 minute or 5 minutes, paste into a new player and then export that in QT?
I think this file may be too large, just off the top of my head.

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